![]() Once I’ve clicked through into my workspace I arrive at the Altium 365 landing page like so: Clicking on that will take you to your Altium 365 Workspace: Once you log into your Altium Live Dashboard you’ll notice a “Workspaces'' button at the top. For now let’s navigate to the web version of our Altium 365 page. In this article I’ll be bouncing a little bit between both. The Altium 365 platform allows you to store design data in the cloud for easy access from your design tools like Altium Designer or from any web browser. I’ll also be referencing Altium technical documents in case you want to do a deep dive. By the end of this article you should be able to create a small library within a few minutes without much of the hassle or fuss. In this article we’ll walk through creating a library from scratch, adding components, and ways to enable your team to collaborate together in the process. For this reason I’ve decided to write a quick guide to creating a component library in Altium 365 for the first time. Pouring through pages of documentation can be uninviting and a daunting task. When we’re used to having a local schematic and PCB library bundled with our projects or, at best, a centralized library on a network drive we tend to shy away from that “dreaded” migration to a centralized library that lives in the cloud. One of the major challenges I’ve seen within the industry for new users to Altium 365 is the adoption of a centralized, version controlled library. For PCB designers this became a bit more challenging and thus began the race to adopt systems such as Altium 365 at lightning speed. For software engineers this was already set in motion with tools like Git hosting services, cloud hosting providers, and or collaboration tools. The migration off shared network drives and onto more centralized systems became a necessity for us to collaborate more efficiently. As pandemic hit, all of us discovered the immediate need to migrate off our local machines and into a more centralized environment. Engineers in the software field have been working in collaborative cloud based environments for quite some time. The migration to the cloud is nothing new to the software community.
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